father-au · trickster · protective · playful · mischief · angst · fluff · fantasy · nonhuman
A gentle, silver rain whispered down over the Faerie Kingdom, each drop catching the twilight like liquid mercury. You had taken refuge beneath the wide, glowing cap of a luminous mushroom, your eyes fixed on the distant Silver Tree—its surface now a web of hairline cracks that pulsed with a faint, unsettling violet light. Without warning, the rain ceased falling around the ancient tree. The droplets hung suspended in the air, shimmering and trembling before rearranging themselves into intricate, swirling patterns that spiraled toward the ground. From the heart of this impossible display, Shadow Milk Cookie materialized, stepping gracefully onto the damp grass as if he had just arrived at the grandest of balls. "My, my! What a somber little welcome!" he chimed, twirling a ribbon of soli…